PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti's leaders unveiled the lineup Monday of a unity government supposed to bridge a dangerous political void and put the fragile Caribbean nation back on the road to elected government. Haiti has failed to hold elections in three years and parliament's mandate expired last week.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics said he defends the Church's teaching against artificial contraception but claimed that didn't mean "Christians should have children one after the other."
The audit comes as Costa Rica tries to maintain its improving record on financial transparency after the largest alleged money laundering operation in history – the $6 billion Liberty Reserve – was shuttered in May 2013.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The Argentine prosecutor who last week accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of trying to absolve Iranian officials from their involvement in the most deadly terrorist attack in the nation's history was found dead in his apartment.
The amount of cocaine Costa Rica confiscated last year is more than half the amount seized in the previous four years combined. The successful Tico approach has made the country the region’s leader in drug confiscation and in cracking down on both local and international narco-structures, the DEA claims.
Honduras, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, ridden by corruption, severely hit by violence, and showing some of the highest inequity levels in the region, seems set to build the first private city in the Central American nation’s history, to begin perhaps as early as next year.
Planet Earth set an ominous record last year as global temperatures rose to the highest level since modern measurements began, scientists said Friday in a report that heightened concerns about humanity's growing toll on the natural systems that sustain life.
